investigators say steven was the alleged stabber and gabriel was the lookout. both pleaded not but amazingly, jim wasn t done with the idea of murder. he apparently believed his cellmate had connections and wanted to hire a new hitman from jail. he wants the ranch hands taken care of. he actually drew out a map that was never found depicting where he can find the ranch hand to actually carry out this murder. and what he wanted to do was have the ranch hand tortured so he could actually tell his cellmate or tell the hit man where the other two individuals were. prosecutors say the price tag for pam fayed s killing was he was bankrolling it. no question. he commissioned this crime. and that s where the investigation began to lead us. that s where the evidence began to lead us. we knew
that was that on one of these occasions he said that mr. fayed had set up a time when she was at a party in malibu on the 4th of july. was pam fayed at a party in malibu on july 4th? yes, she was. and that led to his credibility. so at that time we decided to try to get this conversation on tape. so they wired the cellmate for sound, and they heard jim fayed talking about how he had tried to kill his wife but how it just hadn t worked out that time. prosecutor alan jackson. james fayed describes in detail how he told the killers about a party that pamela was going to be attending in malibu. according to him, they were simply supposed to carjack her and kill her. and everybody would think that it was just a random act of violence. nobody would know anything the
was to take all the money and to crush her during the divorce proceeding. in california it s pretty hard to crush somebody and take all the money in a divorce proceeding. i would say so. she helped build the company. she was an officer in the company. she held half of the company s proceeds. i mean, she was half owner. it s as simple as that. and soon there would be another problem, what pam fayed had worried about would come true. federal investigators would come after goldfinger, indicting both jim and pam fayed because their company didn t have those money transmitter licenses. when the indictment came down, pamela fayed was in contact with her lawyer very quickly. she immediately indicated that she wanted to cooperate with the that was the position that she was i want to cooperate. i want to do whatever i can to help out the
of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed divorce, therefore, got his a tension. acrimonious, nasty, bitter. mr. fayed was really upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. so that marriage would bear much more scrutiny. investigators set about talking to friends and family to solve the mystery of pam s death. they needed to start with the story of her life. pamela had a spirit that was carol neve was pam s best front. she was always happy. she had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. carol met pam 22 years ago. we were neighbors and we did become best friends, to the tune of every day we talked. every single day. that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. pam was a single mom. she and carol babysat for each
began to experience some rough patches financially. jim often worked as an electrical contractor for the government, a job that would take him on the road for weeks at a time. then there were times when the work would run out and he would have to scramble to find more. it was a struggle. they argued. pam felt abandoned a lot. at one point pam went on public assistance, it was something she had promised herself would never happen, but now pam had to go down that path. it s possible she blamed jim for that reversal of fortune. it was a point to where they would argue and she wasn t sure she wanted to still be there. she would call me and ask me for help. and ask me to send money. i sent her money twice or three times to start divorce proceedings. and then they would always make back up and move on. and that was fine. i just wanted my friend to be happy.